The last few weeks have been tough for Erik and me. We’ve both been really focused on work (he’s been REALLY focused on work). Plus, Erik has been traveling a lot, which means I’ve been home alone eating like a preschooler – mac and cheese, peanut butter, ice cream. Also, the house is a mess and I haven’t been to the gym in ages…but that’s beside the point. Basically, the most interesting thing to come . . . → Read More: Eating vicariously

In the past two days I’ve come across a number of articles on “real food”, as well as the connections between food and health. Taken together, these provide a pretty good starting summary for why we shop, cook, and eat the way that we do.

The first topic is the most visible in the news: factory farms are nasty places. The conditions, combined with the 100mph processing that the animals go through combine forces . . . → Read More: A flurry of articles: why we do what we do…

Our shift towards eating local food began as a shift towards cooking more for ourselves and eating whole foods (or “real food” as some call it).

A friend was suffering from pancreatic cancer at a tragically young age, and was fighting it as best she could with diet. It was primarily about cutting sugar almost entirely out of her diet in every form.